This is the class blog for Eng 1102 at GA Tech called "Fiction, Human Rights, and Social Responsibility." The purpose of this blog is to extend our discussion beyond the classroom and to become aware of human rights issues that exist in the world today and how technology has played a role in either solving or aggravating them. Blogs will be a paragraph long (250 words) and students will contribute once every three weeks according to class number. Entries must be posted by Friday midnight.

Friday, March 1, 2013

South Sudan becomes a free nation, but tens of thousands of its people remain enslaved in the North

South Sudan becomes a free nation, but tens of
thousands of its people remain enslaved in the North

The slavery issue is indeed one of the head
issues in Africa, which until nowadays endangering African Human rights. This
article is illustrating the problem of slavery problem in Sudan. After the
independence of Sudan from Egypt in 1956, two civil wars had occurred among
Sudanese people. With all the revolutions and wars, finally the Republic of
South Sudan became independence from Sudan. According to the article, newly
born country, South Sudan, encountered the slavery problem, while it was in the
process of nation building. It was so because thousands of South Sudanese were
still captured as slaves in the north, Sudan. The article says, that they were
the one who bolstered the revolutions, during the process of South Sudan
becoming independence.

Tracing back
Sudan's history, the native black Africans were slaughtered by the ruling northern
Egyptians. Egypt, although it is part of Africa, has ethnic and cultures that
are different from black-Africans. Through the slave-raid that the ruling north
practiced ended with southern Sudan's independence, however those who were
already enslaved couldn't return to their home. CSI (Christian Solidarity
International) and AASG (American Anti-Slavery Group) are working hard to send
these slaves back to south, however the reality is much harsher.

The slavery always have been the major factor
that had irritated the world human rights. Throughout the history, there had
been uncountable amount of numbers between different ethnics. The winner took
the losers back to their lands as their slaves. The winner never saw the loser
as equal human. They treated them as they were even lower than the animals. As
it gets to the modern world, all of these practices had been wiped out from the
globe. Through the two world wars, people realized that the peace is essential
and recent human rights activities erased the conflicts between the ethnics.
However Africa, which most of the countries are in the standard of developing,
is changing much slower than other developed countries. Strictly speaking, they
still have the old characteristics of wildness, which the stronger one should
be stepped on the weaker ones. It is not so only for Sudan. Most of the African
countries are going through wars between races, for example the Rwanda
Genocide. This was mainly because of the European colonization, which impeded the
African countries' cultural, economic, ethnical developments. Now they are in
stage that they cannot control and get it right. The colonizers, European
countries, must be responsible for this issues and should help actively for the
African countries to welcome the peace.